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It is generally reported that rumpy and eppy had a 15-year friendship. In order to distance himself from Epstein's incredibly sordid affairs and apparently also his business of trafficking, rump now claims that he broke up with Epstein after he stole two of rump's teenage employees.
This makes no sense to me. It more resembles a gang or drug lord's dispute with a competitor. The kind where one guy is standing on the other's corner selling competitvely. Why would rump toss a 15 year friendship where he received the perk of nubile rendezvous customized for him by Maxwell? No, not unless rump was starting his own version of that trafficking with MAL as the base. Business is business, and it's pretty ruthless.
I wonder who was rump's Madam for the recruitment of young girl's at MAL? Was this business also a failure as everything else is in his life, or was it part of the membership benefits of belonging to that social club?
I just don't believe rump dumped that friendship over a towel girl.

live love laugh
(15,783 posts)asked Trump for advice on a mansion Epstein was going to buy. Jealously Trump went behind Epsteins back and brought the mansion before Epstein could. Typical Trump hes nobodys friend. Not that I give a care about Leon, but looking at how distant those two have become after Trump got what he wanted from Musk, its easy to see how something similar couldnt happen with Epstein. Trump also distance to himself from Rocombe once he learned the ropes so they speak when it comes to lawsuits and using the judicial system.
Puppyjive
(806 posts)They have been extorting Trump. They have been grooming him and realized that they can't keep the extortion going if the public finds out hence the big coverup. They hold all the cards Trump will do whatever they want. Everything points to Putin. Trump's stance on Ukraine really got me thinking. Our country supports Ukraine. Trump went rogue.
littlemissmartypants
(29,291 posts)I don't have a source. It was sent by a friend who doesn't have one either. That's why I'm asking.
According to Mussayev, the kompromat includes financial records showing illicit transactions connected to accounts either owned by Trump or clearly affiliated with his name. It also contains statements from operatives who were directly involved in kompromat operationsindividuals who could, if necessary, provide witness testimony confirming the authenticity and intent behind the material. Most damning of all, he claims, are the recordings: audio and video documentation of sexual crimes against minors and acts of violence against women.
Mussayev states that this material has been in the Kremlins hands for years. He claims that the Russian FSB has deliberately leaked fragments of this kompromat, not to expose Trump publicly, but to exert pressure on him. The goal, according to Mussayev, is strategic: ensure Trump remains aligned with Russian geopolitical interests. That includes undermining NATO, destabilizing the European Union, and pressuring Ukraine into surrender.
The kompromat doesnt exist to embarrass Trumpit exists to guide him. Mussayev describes it as a calibrated pressure system. When Trump hesitates or veers from Russias interests, the FSB lets just enough out to remind him whos holding the leash. Its not chaos. Its design. And the person benefiting from that design is Vladimir Putin.
Mussayev also asserts that Trump has worked systematically to prevent any U.S. investigation into his criminal exposure. He claims Trump has turned American institutionsCongress, the DOJ, the FBI, intelligence agencies, even immigration enforcementinto instruments of personal protection. In Mussayevs view, these institutions now answer to a single man, and that man answers to Moscow.
He makes clear that Trump cannot negotiate with the FSB. He cannot buy them off. He cannot order them to bury the kompromat. The operation was never about moneyit was about leverage. Trump may hold the presidency, but Putin holds the file.
Mussayevs allegations do not come in the form of speculation. He does not hedge his words or offer qualifiers. He names names. He explains the mechanisms. He draws a straight line from Soviet intelligence practices to modern blackmail operations and directly implicates Donald Trump as a long-term target who was successfully recruited, compromised, and used.
These arent historical footnotes. Mussayev is not recounting a Cold War anecdote. He is describing an active security breachone that, according to him, still defines the behavior of the most powerful man in the United States. Mussayev claims that Trumps current refusal to investigate his own crimes, his loyalty to Kremlin-aligned figures, and his policy sabotage of Western alliances all stem from the kompromat Putin is holding.
The allegations suggest that the American presidency is compromised at its core. Not just politically. Operationally. That the person issuing executive orders, appointing judges, and influencing global conflict zones may be doing so under foreign pressure. Mussayev is not coy about this. He says the evidence exists. He says the recordings are real. And he says the only reason Trump hasnt been exposed is because Putin doesnt want him exposed. He wants him useful.
This is not about guilt or innocence. It is about leverage. It is about a foreign adversary exercising influence over a U.S. president through a system designed to operate in silence. The kompromat doesnt need to be revealed to work. It just needs to be feared.
If what Mussayev says is true, the implications are not hypothetical. They are immediate. And they reach the highest level of global power.
More is coming.
This is just the first breach.
JustAnotherGen
(36,873 posts)Was 40-year-old Trump recruited by the KGB?
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5162890-assessing-new-allegations-that-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb/
Fact check: Was Donald Trump recruited by the KGB and codenamed 'Krasnov'?
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/13/fact-checking-online-claims-that-donald-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb-as-krasnov
Malcolm Nance has several books that are worth reading on Russia infiltration of America. Krasnov is just one of their pressure points.
This is why I call him Krasnov.
littlemissmartypants
(29,291 posts)The interstitial ads on the Hill's site were crazy. But it was worth wading through them and reading the second link to get to this jewel ...
I have one of those hats from a PR trip my husband took to Russia in the early 1990s. But I collect hats. I have a trunk full of all different kinds.
Thanks again! ❤️